Alma

Conceived of the timber business in 1860, Alma rapidly turned into a prosperous agrarian ward. It burst into the mechanical age in 1923 with the beginning of development of the Isle-Maligne hydro station on the Grande Décharge. Alma, Québec, City, pop 29 998 2006c, 30 126 2001cA, inc 1979.

Alma is situated at the leader of the Saguenay River close Lac Saint-Jean, 230 km north of Québec City. Region seat of Lac Saint-Jean Est, central command of the legal locale of a similar name, the present city contains 5 previous regions: Alma, Riverbend, Isle-Maligne, Naudville and the ward of Alma.

Conceived of the timber business in 1860, Alma rapidly turned into a prosperous agrarian ward. It burst into the modern age in 1923 with the beginning of development of the Isle-Maligne hydro station on the Grande Décharge. At the point when finished in 1926, the station provided control for the Arvida aluminum works and the Price paper process in Alma. Populace increased fivefold 1921-31.